18 Define Common SCM Configuration: Define Source
Systems

Source Systems: Explained

Source systems are used to import data into
Oracle Fusion Applications, and are used within the application to
identify source data information. You can specify whether the source
system is a Spoke system, such as a legacy system, or a Purchased
system, such as data from a third party provider. You can also specify
what type of data will be imported using the source system, for example,
you can specify that a source system will import trading community
members.

You can configure the following for a source system:

Source system code, name, and description

Source system type

Enable for Items, Trading Community
Members, Order Orchestration and Planning, and Assets

Source System Code, Name, and Description

You can create a source system code to uniquely
identify the source system. Source system codes are used by the application
when creating references between source IDs and the Oracle Fusion
Applications database IDs. You can create a source system name and
description to provide information that is more descriptive than the
source system code.

Note

You cannot update the source system code once you
have created the source system.

Source System Type

You must set up a source system as either
a Spoke system, such as a legacy system, or a Purchased system, such
as data from Dun & Bradstreet.

Enable for Items, Trading Community Members, Order
Orchestration and Planning, and Assets

You should select which types of entities
will be imported from the source system into the Oracle Fusion Applications
database from the following:

Items

Trading Community Members

Order Orchestration and Planning

Assets

You can select one or more of these entity types as
required for the source system. It is important to enable the correct
entity types because each import UI filters source systems based on
their entity type. For example, if a source system is enabled for
Trading Community Members, Items, and Assets, then the source system
can be selected as a data source in the Trading Community Members,
Items, and Asset import UIs, but the source system cannot be selected
in the Orchestration and Planning import UI.

Source System
Entities: Explained

Source System Entities are the entities, such
as addresses and parties, which can be imported using a specified
source system.

When you import data from a source system, all of
the entities in the source system data will be imported. Within the
Source System Entities UI, you can chose to allow multiple source
references, which allows multiple records from a source system to
map to a single trading community record.

FAQs for Define Source Systems

What happens if I allow multiple source system references?

Allowing multiple source system references
means that when you import data from a source system you can merge
multiple, or duplicate, source system records and create one record
in the Oracle Fusion Applications database.

If you do not allow multiple source system references
then an Oracle Fusion Applications database record will be created
for every source system record. This means that you could potentially
create duplicate records in the Oracle Fusion Applications database.